/etc/ethers not saved in backup

[cire831@…]

I have a bunch of mac to ip addresses defined in /etc/ethers. But when I create a backup archive using: System->Backup/Flash? Firmware->Generate Archive, /etc/ethers isn't included.

So on a restore to a clean system or to overlay changes that didn't work /etc/ethers isn't set back to its desired state.

This also doesn't work for /etc/ethers.local which should also be included.

I am running the current OpenWRT backfire 10.03.1 (r29592) with luci 0.10.0-1

root@gap-ow:/home/Configuration/etc# opkg list-installed | grep luci
luci - 0.10.0-1
luci-app-firewall - 0.10.0-1
luci-i18n-english - 0.10.0-1
luci-lib-core - 0.10.0-1
luci-lib-ipkg - 0.10.0-1
luci-lib-lmo - 0.10.0-1
luci-lib-nixio - 0.10.0-1
luci-lib-sys - 0.10.0-1
luci-lib-web - 0.10.0-1
luci-mod-admin-core - 0.10.0-1
luci-mod-admin-full - 0.10.0-1
luci-proto-core - 0.10.0-1
luci-proto-ppp - 0.10.0-1
luci-sgi-cgi - 0.10.0-1
luci-theme-base - 0.10.0-1
luci-theme-openwrt - 0.10.0-1

[soma]

I think you shouldn't define these in /etc/ethers but in /etc/config/dhcp like this:

config 'host'

option 'name' 'test'
option 'mac' '00:00:11:11:00:11'
option 'ip' '192.168.0.254'

this is the case if you use luci to generate these static mappings.

[jow]

Additionally this isn't a LuCI problem, please file a bug against OpenWrt? base-files.